The Symphonium

Six years on it was time to update the runtime version, and a few other things, for our book examples.

GitHub Actions is a popular automation / CI/CD tool for deploying to AWS.

Automating deployment of cloud resources via a “CI/CD” tool is now common practice.

AWS now support deploying Lambda directly from GitHub Actions.

Infrastructure-as-Code is a standard technique that brings speed, effort, and safety benefits to software and infrastructure deployment.

This article introduces you to AWS’ solution to securing your Organization for human access - Identity Center.

Once you’ve planned the structure of your AWS Organization, you need to build it out.

It makes sense for most companies using AWS to adopt a multi-Account AWS Organization.

Cicada Note #6 - How I organize application and infrastructure source code, with special thought for for projects using CDK and Pulumi.

Symphonia is now a one-man-band!

Cicada Note #5 - There is little standardization in the Javascript world on how to layout a project repository, not even for serverless TypeScript apps.

Cicada Note #4 - How to scale deployment when working with multiple serverless functions

Cicada Note #3 - A demonstration of Cicada’s web interface and notifications

Cicada Note #2 - Drilling into Cicada’s architecture by one level to look at the primary AWS services used, and the interactions between them.

Cicada Note #1 - Cicada’s top-level components and the interfaces between then.

Cicada is an application that is both a full example of building a real application using Serverless techniques on AWS, and also a practical monitoring tool for GitHub.

Serverless in 2023 - a chasm crossed?

I was recently a guest on the ThoughtWorks Tech Podcast to give my thoughts about the state of Serverless today.

The second of two articles about AWS Lambda SnapStart, this looks at how developers can update their existing Java Lambda applications to use SnapStart, and what performance improvements they might expect to see.

At reInvent 2022 AWS announced “SnapStart” - a new Lambda capability to drastically improve cold starts when using Lambda with Java, or other JVM languages.

AWS Lambda is my preferred runtime environment for cloud-based code.

Welcome to Part 2 of “Starting with CDK” .

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a tool you can use to deploy applications and infrastructure to AWS.

This is a cross-post from the Cockroach Labs blog.

Simple, single-responsiblity, AWS Lambda applications have one Lambda function and one event source.

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) has become, in its short history, a very popular infrastructure-as-code tool.

The server-side software industry is about to switch from x86 to ARM CPUs.

Symphonia’s September 2020 newsletter, with some thoughts around hybrid architecture strategy

A strategy for considering serverless and testing, which bucks the trend of other opinions in the industry.

Serverless isn’t just Lambda Here at Symphonia, we’re proponents of all things Serverless.

Hi everyone, Mike here!

Deep dive into cold starts, with some surprises related to regions, volatility, and ‘cool’ starts

Chatting with Jeremy Daly.

Debug cloud-deployed Lambda functions from your IDE

All of our knowledge of running AWS Lambda with Java, wrapped up into 250 pages!

AWS CodePipeline is AWS’ CD orchestration tool.

Hi everyone.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) are techniques that I’ve had a passion about for a long time.

This is the latest edition of our newsletter.

This is the latest edition of our newsletter.

This is the latest edition of our newsletter.

I started writing “Serverless Architectures” in May 2016.

AWS announced a new service — the Serverless Application Repository (SAR) — at re:Invent 2017.

This is the latest edition of our newsletter.

This is the latest edition of our newsletter.

Lambda is a wonderful platform.

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements.

This is the latest edition of our newsletter.

This is Part 9 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda.

This is Part 8 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda.